My new hobby is searching the internet for ridiculous muay thai trunks to strike fear into the hearts of my opponents. Or at least to strike awesomeness into the face of my girlfriend when she is a spectator. Or to just be able to look at people and give them a stare that says "**** yea, I'm wearing a purple shirt with a unicorn on it, and bright orange thai shorts with a demon face on the dick. This is how I roll."

.......Then they beat the crap out of me.

Anyway, I recently bought these to celebrate my prajaed test that I'm taking in a couple of hours:

Please share your most awesome, ridiculous, or osten-fucking-tatious fight gear (or is it just me?)

8/22/2012 4:02pm,

Fuzzy

I've seen videos of my instructor fighting in a pair of bright yellow/orange shorts with a huge smiley face on the arse.

8/22/2012 4:22pm,

itwasntme

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Originally Posted by lordbd

Because sometimes when I get in the ring

What happened to keeping us posted on your competition??

And what is the significance of the Prajead test? I googled it but all I found were videos of tests and websites selling Prajeads. The only site I found with any real info said something about trinkets being worn by Thai fighters back in the day that were prayed(?) to for luck, but nothing specific about the Prajead.

8/22/2012 5:02pm,

captainbirdseye

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Originally Posted by itwasntme

And what is the significance of the Prajead test? I googled it but all I found were videos of tests and websites selling Prajeads. The only site I found with any real info said something about trinkets being worn by Thai fighters back in the day that were prayed(?) to for luck, but nothing specific about the Prajead.

Well I guess that as I started Muay Thai I also should get some trunks

8/22/2012 5:41pm,

Ming Loyalist

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Originally Posted by RurikGreenwulf

Well I guess that as I started Muay Thai I also should get some trunks

make sure you're allowed to wear them in your gym. in some gyms, fight shorts are for people who take ring fights. others have to wear some other sort of shorts.

i saw all sorts of cartoon characters and other comic shorts in thailand, it's really common. i personally like the ones with the yellow smiley face on the crotch. it just has to be a distraction to your opponent.

anyway, i'm not a "typical american" in that i have traveled a lot, speak 2 languages and know a small amount of a few other languages, am not fat, etc. so when i travel, i always like to know what the stereotypes are of americans (i get a lot of people talking **** about americans around me, with a "oh you're not like that at *all*" thrown in at the end.) so, i have told this story here before, but when i was in thailand, my camp suggested that i get some shorts with my name on them. i said, "hey, if i'm going to get custom shorts, can you put 'fat lazy pervert' on them in thai?" people said, "why would you want that?" and i said that was what they thought of all americans so why shouldn't i have it on my shorts? lots of "yeah, sure they are, but not *you*" responses.

they didn't get my sense of humor and wouldn't make the shorts. :(

8/22/2012 6:13pm,

RurikGreenwulf

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Originally Posted by Ming Loyalist

make sure you're allowed to wear them in your gym. in some gyms, fight shorts are for people who take ring fights. others have to wear some other sort of shorts.

i saw all sorts of cartoon characters and other comic shorts in thailand, it's really common. i personally like the ones with the yellow smiley face on the crotch. it just has to be a distraction to your opponent.

anyway, i'm not a "typical american" in that i have traveled a lot, speak 2 languages and know a small amount of a few other languages, am not fat, etc. so when i travel, i always like to know what the stereotypes are of americans (i get a lot of people talking **** about americans around me, with a "oh you're not like that at *all*" thrown in at the end.) so, i have told this story here before, but when i was in thailand, my camp suggested that i get some shorts with my name on them. i said, "hey, if i'm going to get custom shorts, can you put 'fat lazy pervert' on them in thai?" people said, "why would you want that?" and i said that was what they thought of all americans so why shouldn't i have it on my shorts? lots of "yeah, sure they are, but not *you*" responses.

they didn't get my sense of humor and wouldn't make the shorts. :(

Thanks for the advice, I will ask around my gym but I have no need of trunks right now nor the money to spare.
That's a nice story so what shorts did you use in the end? how much did you competed in thailand?